HSK 7-9 Syllabus & Graded Readings

Can understand and read introductions or comments about personal study, work, and life experiences, future plans, personality, hobbies, interpersonal relationships, fashion awareness, aesthetic preferences, and values. For example, can understand a complex social letter and infer the sender's social background and implicit purpose.

Can give detailed, clear, and fluent oral or written accounts of personal study, work, and life experiences and future plans, as well as personality, hobbies, relationships, fashion sense, aesthetic preferences, and values, expressing emotions and attitudes appropriately; can also make appropriate and tactful evaluations of others' character and views, for example, commenting on someone's upbringing and manner of speaking with specific examples.

Can accurately and fluently translate personal information from oral or written materials such as resumes, biographies, and news reports into Chinese.

Can understand speeches at weddings, funerals, and other ceremonies, and grasp complex information in formal or informal discussions about family history, family details, family education, family values, division of property, divorce, and remarriage, as well as Chinese family concepts and marriage customs, for example, following an informal talk about the origins and changes of the relationship between the bride's and groom's families.

Can give detailed, clear, and fluent oral or written descriptions and explanations of family history, family education, family values, and family members' personalities, analyze the influence of family background, upbringing, and social status on family members, and express views on topics such as division of property, divorce, and remarriage, for example, writing a short essay on raising children in single-parent families.

Can accurately and fluently translate oral or written materials involving family information, such as speeches, letters, and background introductions, into Chinese.

Can understand introductions or comments about community housing types, public spaces, residential facilities, and community culture, for example, understanding documents about community regulations.

Can give detailed, clear, and fluent oral or written descriptions and explanations of community housing types, public spaces, residential facilities, and community organizations and regulations, as well as community culture, for example, analyzing the composition and cultural characteristics of a community and expressing personal views.

Can accurately and fluently translate oral or written materials about community culture into Chinese.

Can understand introductions and comments about Chinese cuisine and cooking, and gain deep insights into China's catering industry, ingredients, dietary concepts, table manners, and the cultural characteristics embedded in them, for example, understanding the preparation method and cultural significance of a classic dish.

Can give detailed, clear, and fluent oral or written explanations of China's catering industry, ingredients, dietary concepts, table manners, and the Chinese cultural characteristics they embody, for example, analyzing the features of a chain hotpot restaurant and discussing possible differences in acceptance between Chinese and foreign customers and the reasons.

Can accurately and fluently translate oral or written materials about cooking and cuisine into Chinese.

Can understand introductions, descriptions, and comments about natural scenery, cultural features, historical knowledge, travel plans, and personal experiences, such as a hiking and camping travel post.

Can describe in detail, clearly, and fluently, orally or in writing, the natural scenery and cultural features of a place, explain related historical and cultural knowledge, share personal travel experiences, and analyze and evaluate travel modes, activity arrangements, environmental conditions, and service quality, such as analyzing the pros and cons of a homestay based on personal experience.

Can accurately and fluently translate oral or written materials introducing a place's natural scenery and cultural features into Chinese.

Can understand analyses and comments on disease prevention, symptoms, causes, treatment, and medical ethics, accurately understand doctors' diagnoses and treatment plans for physical or mental illnesses, and read popular science articles about health and basic content of drug instructions, such as an article about depression symptoms and treatment.

Can narrate in detail, clearly, and fluently, orally or in writing, the symptoms of physical or mental illnesses, analyze and comment on disease prevention, causes, and treatment, and express views on medical ethics, such as analyzing the impact of lifestyle and mindset on health.

Can act as an interpreter between doctors and patients, accurately and fluently translating patients' statements, doctors' diagnoses, treatment plans, and medication instructions into Chinese, and can accurately and fluently translate popular science materials on medical and health topics into Chinese.

Can understand detailed reports and comments on sports, introductions and comments on sports events and rules, and analyses of sportsmanship and sports culture, such as understanding a description of local folk wrestling competition customs and rules.

Can describe in detail, clearly, and fluently, orally or in writing, the process and characteristics of a sport, and express opinions on athlete performance, event results, and sports culture, such as briefly introducing the history of surfing and explaining its technical essentials.

Can accurately and fluently translate oral or written materials on sports that are not highly specialized into Chinese.

Can understand and read detailed introductions about important aspects of China's past and present regions, specific descriptions of people, things, or phenomena, and analyses and comments on social and cultural phenomena, such as reading a short article introducing the architectural features and customs of a Chinese ethnic minority.

Can give in-depth oral or written analyses of important Chinese thoughts, figures, events, and phenomena from past and present, and can express views on the history, current state, and future of China's social, economic, and cultural fields, such as analyzing the modern relevance of Confucian ideas in light of contemporary global issues.

Can accurately and fluently translate oral or written materials about China's national conditions and culture into Chinese.

Can understand and read various contracts, agreements, and regulations concerning personal safety, property, and rights, and can grasp the demands of parties in disputes, such as fully understanding the specifics of a rental contract and its impact on tenants' interests.

Can clearly explain views on responsibility in a dispute, negotiate with stakeholders based on evidence, express feelings, and assert rights, such as stating the details of an online shopping dispute on a rights protection platform and making well-founded claims.

Can serve as an oral or written interpreter for both parties in a dispute, accurately conveying their views and demands, and can translate materials needed for dispute resolution into Chinese accurately and fluently.

Can understand and read excerpts from Chinese films, dramas, and modern prose, poetry, and fiction, and can deeply grasp their linguistic artistry and cultural connotations, as well as understand popular analyses and critiques of artistic works, such as following relatively self-contained dialogue excerpts in contemporary Chinese films.

Can provide in-depth oral or written analyses of excerpts from literary works, explaining viewpoints coherently, such as interpreting the significance of a character description in a novel within its historical context.

Can accurately and fluently translate excerpts from literary works into Chinese.

Can understand and read news reports, commentaries, in-depth reports, interviews, and analyses on various social topics in Chinese media, and can understand discussions on social responsibility of online media, information security, and copyright protection, such as reading an in-depth commentary on current affairs.

Can analyze news events in depth and express personal views on issues such as social responsibility of online media, information security, and copyright protection, including discussing negative phenomena like rumor spreading and defamation.

Can translate news reports and related commentaries into Chinese accurately and fluently.

Can understand spoken and written descriptions, analyses, and comments on economic topics such as market trends, economic policies, hot issues, and consumption trends, including official documents on economic reform.

Can present well-organized views on economic topics like market dynamics, economic policies, and consumption trends, and discuss issues such as the significance of hybrid rice research and cultivation.

Can translate spoken or written materials on economic issues into Chinese accurately and fluently.

Can understand popular introductions, analyses, and comments on science and technology, especially emerging fields like information technology, cybersecurity, aerospace, and biochemistry, including articles on big data industry development.

Can present well-organized views on the development of science and technology, including emerging fields, and discuss the impact of AI on society, work, and daily life, weighing its pros and cons.

Can translate news reports and popular science articles on science and technology into Chinese accurately and fluently.

Can understand discussions, lectures, and articles on global issues such as world heritage protection, ecological conservation, public health events, and building a community with a shared future for humanity, including reports on globalization and localization.

Can express well-organized views on global issues like world heritage protection, ecological conservation, public health events, and building a shared future, and can analyze and comment on topics such as poverty eradication.

Can accurately and fluently translate oral or written materials on hot topics in human social development into Chinese.

Can understand detailed introductions about the overview of an organization or industry, as well as specific processes in production, trade, and management, and can grasp key professional terms from context, such as during a tour of a textile factory.

Can give detailed, clear, and fluent oral or written presentations about the overview of an organization or industry based on a given topic or material, including analysis and commentary on trends, such as summarizing the current state of China's sharing economy.

Can accurately and fluently translate oral or written materials introducing the overview of an organization or industry, as well as specific processes in production, trade, and management, into Chinese.

Can understand partners' or business counterparts' willingness to cooperate, problems in cooperation, and specific conditions and requirements, including tactfully expressed demands about profit sharing and responsibility allocation.

Can clearly and appropriately express willingness to cooperate, and can respond to partners' or counterparts' questions in detail, clearly, fluently, and appropriately, specifying conditions, requirements, and mutual responsibilities, such as confirming shipping methods, deadlines, quality guarantees, and risk allocation with a logistics company.

Can serve as an interpreter in business negotiations and can accurately and fluently translate written materials needed for negotiations into Chinese.

Can understand laws, regulations, and other documents related to organizational operations and daily business, fully grasp their relevance to the organization, and read letters from government authorities and partner institutions, understanding their deeper meanings, such as interpreting e-commerce regulations and their implications for the company.

Can clearly and fully express the organization's views and attitudes orally or in writing based on a given topic or material, such as drafting a company statement to seriously clarify a rumor or make a solemn declaration against infringement.

Can understand specific content in materials about HR policies, job responsibilities, and performance reviews, and can grasp instructions from superiors about personnel arrangements and adjustments, as well as subordinates' demands about working conditions, such as thoroughly understanding key information in an employment contract.

Can explain HR policies and regulations in detail, clearly and fluently, orally or in writing, and can appropriately express personal concerns about employment relations or career development to the relevant authorities, such as writing a study leave application with detailed reasons and plans.

Can accurately and fluently translate into Chinese notices, requests, appeals, and written materials concerning personnel relations from managers or employees.

Can understand the overall plan and specific tasks of a business project, such as reading a marketing project proposal.

Can clearly and concretely assign work or summarize and report on work progress, orally or in writing, based on a given topic or material, such as introducing a project activity plan as the person in charge at a project kickoff meeting and specifying task responsibilities.

Can accurately and fluently translate into Chinese oral or written materials about work plans and arrangements.

Can understand detailed feedback from customers about products and services, accurately grasp their true intentions, understand non-standard Mandarin with regional accents, and comprehend both formal and informal correspondence from customers, such as understanding a customer's doubts about specific details in a travel product introduction and their personalized needs.

Can explain product features, usage, service content, and relevant precautions to customers in detail, clearly, and fluently, orally or in writing, such as introducing the conditions for joining a franchise chain to a potential franchisee.

Can accurately and fluently translate into Chinese product descriptions, service plans, and agreement texts that are not highly specialized.

Can understand and comprehend market research and analysis, such as reading a research report on elderly care service demand in a certain area, and can reflect on the report's conclusions and response strategies.

Can analyze and explain statistical results, clearly and logically interpreting correlations and overall patterns, orally or in writing, based on given topics or materials, such as analyzing the opera market based on recent audience statistics and making recommendations for the troupe's performance plans and strategies.

Can accurately and fluently translate market analysis reports and similar materials in a specific industry into Chinese.

Can read and understand various documents related to institutional business, and grasp key points of oral presentations. For example, can read draft display materials and oral commentary for an upcoming agricultural products exhibition, evaluate them, and suggest improvements.

Can orally summarize key points of documents and written materials on a given topic, and draft various documents. For example, can write meeting minutes based on detailed records of a board meeting.

Can accurately and fluently translate various company documents and written materials into Chinese.

Can understand and read school management regulations, such as enrollment management, course requirements, and reward/punishment rules, fully grasping specific details. For example, can understand regulations at a Chinese university regarding conditions and procedures for foreigners applying for doctoral degrees.

Can explain school management regulations in detail, clearly and fluently, orally or in writing, on a given topic. For example, as a jointly trained doctoral student, can explain to the Chinese university's registrar the background and meaning of a letter from the foreign university's registrar.

Can accurately and fluently translate regulations on education systems and academic management into Chinese.

Can understand lectures and seminars in general education and basic professional courses, and can quickly read and accurately understand teaching materials and related literature. For example, can understand a lecture on the history of aerospace technology, grasp main points and structure, accurately record key content, and raise questions and opinions.

Can speak in class or group discussions on topics from general education and basic professional courses, and can write notes, reading reports, and research summaries. For example, can give a class presentation on how to understand 'postmodernism' based on reading materials.

Can accurately and fluently translate oral or written materials on general topics in the humanities and social sciences into Chinese.

Can understand explanations about learning resources and how to access them, such as how search engine algorithms affect results for precise searching.

Can contact others in writing or speech to effectively obtain learning resources on a given topic, and can clearly and fluently explain how to access them and their effectiveness, such as emailing a scholar or institution to request database access and later providing feedback.

Can accurately and fluently translate information about learning resources into Chinese.

Can understand and read specific requirements, step-by-step instructions, safety notices, and usage rules for equipment and instruments in basic professional courses, such as regulations for storing and using flammable and explosive items in a lab.

Can summarize and report experimental results in speech or writing based on a given topic or material, such as writing a lab report from records of the process and results.

Can accurately and fluently translate materials needed for experiments into Chinese.

Can understand and read various somewhat specialized academic reports and literature, summarize their core viewpoints, and identify language issues or logical flaws, offering critical comments. For example, can read a research paper on copyright of AI-generated works, grasp its main arguments, and point out weaknesses in its reasoning.

Can design research on a given topic, organize materials, analyze data, and write various sections of a paper (abstract, background, literature review, conclusion) following standard Chinese academic conventions, with appropriate style, clear logic, coherence, and explicit viewpoints, and can respond to questions and defend the work, showing good academic literacy. For example, can explain and compare data from a survey on college students' environmental awareness and behavior, or summarize and analyze material from in-depth interviews.

Can accurately and fluently translate excerpts from various somewhat specialized academic papers into Chinese.

Can understand and follow introductions of different academic viewpoints and research findings in academic exchanges, infer the meaning of some technical terms from context, grasp core issues and key details, and participate in discussions. For example, can understand a presenter's description and analysis of low-carbon lifestyle cases at a seminar and discuss details with them.

Can discuss and exchange views on general topics and basic issues in humanities and social sciences, both orally and in writing, based on given themes or materials, such as presenting and justifying opinions on different interpretations of Confucius's concept of 'education without discrimination' at an academic seminar.

Can accurately and fluently translate academic exchange information, such as seminar discussions, into Chinese, including key points and relevant materials.

Can understand and comprehend specific requirements, work arrangements, and management regulations for professional internships, such as reading rules on the use and precautions of medical devices during clinical practice.

Can summarize and report internship outcomes orally or in writing based on given themes or materials, such as writing an internship summary based on internship content, evaluation materials, and related achievements.

Can accurately and fluently translate materials related to internships into Chinese.

Can understand and comprehend complex information about student organizations and social practice, such as reading regulations on the conditions and application procedures for forming a student organization.

Can report in detail, clearly, and fluently on student organization activities, social practice plans, processes, and outcomes, both orally and in writing, and can deliver formal speeches or presentations in relevant settings, such as giving a fluent, appropriate, and insightful speech as the head of a student delegation during an official visit to a Chinese university or other institution.

Can serve as an interpreter in formal settings and accurately and fluently translate materials related to student organization activities and social practice into Chinese.